The Doolittle Raid

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Today, we're talking about one of the great stories of American military history; The Doolittle Raid. In 1942 after the humiliation assault on Pearl Harbour and determined to show that America still had offensive capabilities the charismatic figure of James Doolittle came to President Rosevelt with the proposal to fly army bombers off aircraft carriers and attack Tokyo the capital of the Japanese Empire. Michel Paradis, the author of Last Mission to Tokyo, joins me not only to discuss the mission itself but also the fascinating story of the fight for justice for the Doolittle crews captured, tortured and killed by the Japanese.

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0:00.0	Tom Hanks is Otto. He's seen it all.
0:02.6	Otto?
0:03.3	Otto?
0:04.0	O-T-T-O.
0:05.2	You don't hear that name very often, I do.
0:07.4	He's a man who gets easily annoyed.
0:09.3	What are you doing?
0:10.2	Parallel parking. Parallel the Wattee.
0:12.4	Has had enough.
0:13.4	Are you always his unfriendly?
0:15.4	I am not unfriendly.
0:16.6	OK, you're like a warm cuddle.
0:18.2	But he's finding his joy again in the most unlikely place.
0:21.4	I'm not sure about this.
0:23.6	He's going to be very fun.
0:25.2	A man called Otto, only in cinemas now.
0:30.5	Hi, everybody. Welcome to Dan Snow's History.
0:35.2	It's one of the great stories of American military history.
0:37.6	Now we're talking to Michelle Paradise about the Do-Liftle raid.
0:41.7	He is a brilliant historian, and he has written the story.
0:45.8	Both of the raid itself and of the remarkable legal aftermath of the raid
0:49.4	in 1945 when the perpetrators of war crimes against Do-Liftle Raiders
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